I came out of the restaurant on Saturday and would have jumped in my car and driven off. However, there was a man of forty some years old leaning against his van smoking.
On an impulse I walked up to him and asked him if he had ever thought about quitting. He nodded his head as he blew smoke from the side of his mouth. I told him that the man who was talking to him would save him $30,000:00 if he would listen. I had his immediate attention and for the next ten minutes I laid out some tried and true ways of quitting smoking. This involved the "push" of describing in detail an horrible death through lung cancer and the "pull" of the money that he would save at the rate of $ 10:00 a day for the next twenty years.
Then I came to the punch line of inhaling the Spirit of God into his heart instead a noxious stream of poison into his lungs.
Right there and then he clasped my hand and took a 'deep breath of Jesus' and then proclaimed "I have had my last cigarette".
He followed that up by crushing his remaining supply.
Two days later I phoned him and he was still weed free.
Hallelujah! Ten minutes well spent may have ensured that this man would live to see his grandchildren.
Jubilate.
Ian
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